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Creating Content Providers
Content providers are Android’s central mechanism that enables you to access data of other applications – mostly information stored in databases or flat files. As such content providers are one of Android’s central component types to support the modular approach common to Android. Without content providers accessing data of other apps would be a mess.
Content providers support the four basic operations, normally called CRUD-operations. CRUD is the acronym for create, read, update and delete. With content providers those objects simply represent data – most often a record (tuple) of a database – but they could also be a photo on your SD-card or a video on the web. Let's take a look at how to create a content provider.
Needs Attention, Cliffnotes Here
- http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android-sdk_content-providers--mobile-5549
- http://www.grokkingandroid.com/android-tutorial-writing-your-own-content-provider/
- http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-providers.html
- https://thenewcircle.com/s/post/1375/android_content_provider_tutorial
- http://www.grokkingandroid.com/android-tutorial-content-provider-basics/
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